solar maculation

noun

solar maculation

noun

1

Astronomy, Natural sciences Obsolete Sunspots.

The idea that solar maculation depends in some way upon the position of the planets occurred to Galileo in 1612.1885, Agnes M. Clerke, chapter 2, in A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, page 208:

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